World News from data (good & bad)

• Transmission rate:
  • ⭕ Bad news: new waves 🇱🇰 🇨🇬 🇭🇷 🇷🇸 🇪🇨 🇱🇹 🇧🇦 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇸🇴 🇦🇹 🇩🇰 🇬🇪 🇨🇺 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇲🇼 🇳🇴 🇮🇹 🇰🇿
  • 🟢 Good news: slowing waves 🇧🇼 🇬🇳 🇸🇻 🇮🇪 🇳🇬 🇹🇩 🇮🇸
• ICU need
  • ⭕ Bad news: higher ICU need 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇮 🇦🇲 🇧🇦 🇨🇭 🇭🇷 🇵🇱 🇲🇰 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇧🇬 🇱🇺 🇵🇹 🇬🇪 🇭🇺 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 🇮🇪 🇯🇴 🇦🇹 🇲🇹 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇱🇹 🇺🇸 🇧🇸 🇸🇪 🇮🇷 🇦🇱 🇺🇦 🇰🇬 🇦🇷 🇪🇨 🇱🇻 🇬🇷 🇷🇸 🇷🇺 🇦🇿
  • 🟢 Good news: lower ICU need 🇮🇱 🇵🇪 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇲🇪 🇨🇷 🇲🇩 🇸🇷 🇬🇾 🇯🇲
• New cases and deaths:
  • ⭕ Bad news: new first significant outbreaks
  • 🟢 Good news: no new cases or deaths
  • Mixed news: no new deaths, only new cases 🇲🇱 🇨🇬 🇨🇳 🇨🇾 🇧🇫 🇲🇷 🇱🇷 🇻🇳 🇸🇷 🇩🇯 🇬🇶 🇬🇦 🇸🇬 🇳🇿 🇹🇭 🇳🇪 🇨🇫 🇬🇼 🇧🇯
  • No news: continously inactive countries 🇹🇿
• Deaths burden:
  • ⭕ Bad news: higher death burden 🇲🇰 🇦🇲 🇹🇳 🇭🇷 🇮🇹 🇦🇹
  • 🟢 Good news: lower death burden 🇿🇦
• Appendix:
  • Future model projections plots per country
  • Future World projections (all countries stacked)
    • World total estimated actively infected
    • World total estimated recovered or dead
  • Methodology

Warning: This dashboard was not built by an epidemiologist.

Note: Click a country name to open a search results page for that country’s COVID-19 news.

Based on data up to: 2020-10-25. Compared to (10 days before): 2020-10-15

Transmission rate:

Note: "transmission rate" here is a measure of speed of spread of infection, and means how much of the susceptible population each infected person is infecting per day (if everyone is susceptible). E.g. 10% means that 100 infected patients will infect 10 new people per day. Related to R0. See Methodology for details of calculation.

⭕ Bad news: new waves 🇱🇰 🇨🇬 🇭🇷 🇷🇸 🇪🇨 🇱🇹 🇧🇦 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇸🇴 🇦🇹 🇩🇰 🇬🇪 🇨🇺 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇲🇼 🇳🇴 🇮🇹 🇰🇿

Large increase in transmission rate vs. 10 days ago, that might mean a relapse, new wave, worsening outbreak.

• Countries are sorted by size of change in transmission rate.
• Includes only countries that were previously active (more than 100 estimated new cases).
• "Large increase" = at least +2% change.

	Current: Estimated daily transmission rate	10 days ago: Estimated daily transmission rate	Estimated recent cases in last 5 days	Estimated current ICU need per 100k population	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka	13.7%	7.1%	1,894	0.04	0.0%
🇨🇬 Congo (Brazzaville)	9.3%	3.5%	743	0.02	0.7%
🇭🇷 Croatia	12.8%	7.9%	11,153	2.32	1.3%
🇷🇸 Serbia	11.1%	6.4%	4,908	0.41	1.0%
🇪🇨 Ecuador	8.1%	4.1%	95,450	2.96	14.7%
🇱🇹 Lithuania	10.9%	6.9%	2,716	0.96	0.5%
🇧🇦 Bosnia	10.1%	6.2%	13,925	3.57	3.9%
🇪🇪 Estonia	6.7%	3.2%	354	0.35	0.5%
🇬🇷 Greece	8.6%	5.3%	5,732	0.70	0.5%
🇸🇴 Somalia	4.3%	1.0%	639	0.01	0.3%
🇦🇹 Austria	9.5%	6.4%	14,298	1.57	1.2%
🇩🇰 Denmark	7.6%	4.6%	5,621	1.10	1.2%
🇬🇪 Georgia	11.0%	8.1%	9,064	1.69	1.0%
🇨🇺 Cuba	5.7%	2.8%	405	0.05	0.1%
🇭🇺 Hungary	8.4%	5.6%	24,155	2.65	1.7%
🇱🇻 Latvia	10.4%	7.7%	1,147	0.62	0.3%
🇲🇼 Malawi	4.6%	2.1%	388	0.01	0.5%
🇳🇴 Norway	7.1%	4.9%	1,542	0.30	0.5%
🇮🇹 Italy	11.4%	9.3%	482,835	8.56	5.7%
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan	6.4%	4.4%	1,924	0.06	1.8%

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

🟢 Good news: slowing waves 🇧🇼 🇬🇳 🇸🇻 🇮🇪 🇳🇬 🇹🇩 🇮🇸

Large decrease in transmission rate vs. 10 days ago, that might mean a slowing down / effective control measures.

• Countries are sorted by size of change in transmission rate.
• Includes only countries that were previously active (more than 100 estimated new cases).
• "Large decrease" = at least -2% change.

	Current: Estimated daily transmission rate	10 days ago: Estimated daily transmission rate	Estimated recent cases in last 5 days	Estimated current ICU need per 100k population	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇧🇼 Botswana	1.6%	14.2%	130	0.12	0.3%
🇬🇳 Guinea	2.2%	5.8%	102	0.01	0.3%
🇸🇻 El Salvador	3.8%	6.8%	2,448	0.42	2.7%
🇮🇪 Ireland	6.0%	8.9%	15,836	3.86	5.0%
🇳🇬 Nigeria	2.5%	5.1%	2,748	0.01	0.3%
🇹🇩 Chad	3.9%	6.3%	1,192	0.02	0.3%
🇮🇸 Iceland	4.0%	6.4%	218	1.01	1.3%

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

ICU need

⭕ Bad news: higher ICU need 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇮 🇦🇲 🇧🇦 🇨🇭 🇭🇷 🇵🇱 🇲🇰 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇧🇬 🇱🇺 🇵🇹 🇬🇪 🇭🇺 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 🇮🇪 🇯🇴 🇦🇹 🇲🇹 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇱🇹 🇺🇸 🇧🇸 🇸🇪 🇮🇷 🇦🇱 🇺🇦 🇰🇬 🇦🇷 🇪🇨 🇱🇻 🇬🇷 🇷🇸 🇷🇺 🇦🇿

Large increases in need for ICU beds per 100k population vs. 10 days ago.

• Only countries for which the ICU need increased by more than 0.2 (per 100k).

	Current: Estimated ICU need per 100k population	10 days ago: Estimated ICU need per 100k population	Estimated recent cases in last 5 days	Estimated daily transmission rate	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇧🇪 Belgium	22.53	14.95	283,775	12.1%	12.3%
🇮🇹 Italy	8.56	4.00	482,835	11.4%	5.7%
🇨🇿 Czechia	5.66	2.99	54,604	9.4%	2.8%
🇸🇮 Slovenia	4.31	1.91	10,431	14.2%	1.8%
🇦🇲 Armenia	4.51	2.10	22,809	10.6%	6.6%
🇧🇦 Bosnia	3.57	1.85	13,925	10.1%	3.9%
🇨🇭 Switzerland	3.96	2.53	26,294	8.8%	2.7%
🇭🇷 Croatia	2.32	0.93	11,153	12.8%	1.3%
🇵🇱 Poland	2.85	1.50	120,649	10.2%	1.7%
🇲🇰 North Macedonia	4.16	2.84	9,575	8.1%	6.0%
🇫🇷 France	7.65	6.50	399,174	7.8%	5.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	8.99	7.95	468,453	7.5%	7.3%
🇧🇬 Bulgaria	2.38	1.35	13,874	8.8%	1.7%
🇱🇺 Luxembourg	2.35	1.40	1,665	9.3%	3.0%
🇵🇹 Portugal	2.54	1.59	21,099	8.6%	2.0%
🇬🇪 Georgia	1.69	0.75	9,064	11.0%	1.0%
🇭🇺 Hungary	2.65	1.80	24,155	8.4%	1.7%
🇷🇴 Romania	3.72	2.90	58,642	7.4%	3.5%
🇸🇰 Slovakia	1.53	0.80	10,241	10.7%	0.9%
🇮🇪 Ireland	3.86	3.24	15,836	6.0%	5.0%
🇯🇴 Jordan	1.50	0.90	45,370	8.3%	2.6%
🇦🇹 Austria	1.57	1.04	14,298	9.5%	1.2%
🇲🇹 Malta	1.67	1.16	472	6.4%	1.3%
🇳🇱 Netherlands	7.36	6.86	99,127	7.5%	4.7%
🇩🇪 Germany	1.22	0.76	80,503	8.9%	1.1%
🇱🇹 Lithuania	0.96	0.52	2,716	10.9%	0.5%
🇺🇸 US	2.93	2.53	841,982	6.5%	7.4%
🇧🇸 Bahamas	3.33	2.93	1,521	5.5%	7.0%
🇸🇪 Sweden	2.36	1.96	15,327	6.1%	5.2%
🇮🇷 Iran	2.02	1.66	309,557	6.8%	9.0%
🇦🇱 Albania	1.37	1.02	3,766	6.5%	2.1%
🇺🇦 Ukraine	1.65	1.33	60,750	6.5%	1.7%
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan	0.77	0.48	13,865	7.8%	5.2%
🇦🇷 Argentina	5.37	5.08	219,427	5.6%	10.1%
🇪🇨 Ecuador	2.96	2.68	95,450	8.1%	14.7%
🇱🇻 Latvia	0.62	0.36	1,147	10.4%	0.3%
🇬🇷 Greece	0.70	0.45	5,732	8.6%	0.5%
🇷🇸 Serbia	0.41	0.18	4,908	11.1%	1.0%
🇷🇺 Russia	1.02	0.79	131,098	6.0%	2.1%
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan	0.40	0.17	9,937	9.6%	1.5%

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

🟢 Good news: lower ICU need 🇮🇱 🇵🇪 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇲🇪 🇨🇷 🇲🇩 🇸🇷 🇬🇾 🇯🇲

Large decreases in need for ICU beds per 100k population vs. 10 days ago.

• Only countries for which the ICU need decreased by more than 0.1 (per 100k).

	Current: Estimated ICU need per 100k population	10 days ago: Estimated ICU need per 100k population	Estimated recent cases in last 5 days	Estimated daily transmission rate	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇮🇱 Israel	1.36	2.04	2,804	1.4%	3.9%
🇵🇪 Peru	2.59	3.03	99,120	5.7%	18.4%
🇧🇴 Bolivia	0.88	1.25	7,741	3.2%	15.0%
🇧🇷 Brazil	2.04	2.27	386,978	4.7%	12.0%
🇲🇪 Montenegro	3.71	3.89	1,352	4.0%	5.0%
🇨🇷 Costa Rica	1.75	1.91	7,271	4.6%	4.1%
🇲🇩 Moldova	2.65	2.79	8,936	5.1%	5.9%
🇸🇷 Suriname	0.30	0.43	85	1.8%	3.7%
🇬🇾 Guyana	1.15	1.28	1,141	4.8%	3.4%
🇯🇲 Jamaica	0.44	0.55	1,011	3.4%	1.1%

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

New cases and deaths:

⭕ Bad news: new first significant outbreaks

Countries that have started their first significant outbreak (crossed 1000 total reported cases or 20 deaths) vs. 10 days ago.

	Current: Estimated daily transmission rate	10 days ago: Estimated daily transmission rate	Estimated recent cases in last 5 days	Estimated current ICU need per 100k population	Estimated total affected population percentage

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

🟢 Good news: no new cases or deaths

New countries with no new cases or deaths vs. 10 days ago.

• Only considering countries that had at least 1000 estimated total cases and at least 10 total deaths and had an active outbreak previously.

	Estimated total cases	Total reported deaths	Date of last reported case	Date of last reported death

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

Mixed news: no new deaths, only new cases 🇲🇱 🇨🇬 🇨🇳 🇨🇾 🇧🇫 🇲🇷 🇱🇷 🇻🇳 🇸🇷 🇩🇯 🇬🇶 🇬🇦 🇸🇬 🇳🇿 🇹🇭 🇳🇪 🇨🇫 🇬🇼 🇧🇯

New countries with no new deaths (only new cases) vs. 10 days ago.

• Only considering countries that had at least 1000 estimated total cases and at least 10 total deaths and had an active outbreak previously.

	Current: Estimated daily transmission rate	10 days ago: Estimated daily transmission rate	Estimated recent cases in last 5 days	Estimated current ICU need per 100k population	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇲🇱 Mali	5.2%	6.0%	1,237	0.02	0.3%
🇨🇬 Congo (Brazzaville)	9.3%	3.5%	743	0.02	0.7%
🇨🇳 China	4.7%	4.7%	742	0.00	0.0%
🇨🇾 Cyprus	9.7%	11.0%	647	0.40	0.3%
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso	2.7%	3.1%	623	0.01	0.2%
🇲🇷 Mauritania	3.2%	3.5%	219	0.02	1.4%
🇱🇷 Liberia	4.3%	5.4%	186	0.01	0.6%
🇻🇳 Vietnam	7.2%	6.2%	134	0.00	0.0%
🇸🇷 Suriname	1.8%	2.9%	85	0.30	3.7%
🇩🇯 Djibouti	6.4%	10.3%	77	0.04	1.8%
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea	2.5%	1.7%	40	0.01	2.9%
🇬🇦 Gabon	4.9%	3.8%	39	0.01	0.9%
🇸🇬 Singapore	3.4%	1.2%	37	0.01	1.0%
🇳🇿 New Zealand	6.1%	3.0%	37	0.01	0.1%
🇹🇭 Thailand	3.7%	4.8%	33	0.00	0.0%
🇳🇪 Niger	3.4%	7.3%	30	0.00	0.1%
🇨🇫 CAR (Africa)	2.2%	0.3%	24	0.00	0.6%
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau	-0.0%	1.0%	0	0.01	1.0%
🇧🇯 Benin	7.2%	5.8%	0	0.01	0.1%

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

No news: continously inactive countries 🇹🇿

Countries that had no new cases or deaths 10 days ago or now.

• Only considering countries that had at least 1000 estimated total cases and at least 10 total deaths.
• Caveat:these countries may have stopped reporting data like Tanzania.

	Estimated total cases	Total reported deaths	Date of last reported case	Date of last reported death
🇹🇿 Tanzania	10,215	21	2020-05-08	2020-05-08

Tip: Click country name in legend to switch countries. Uze mouse wheel to zoom Y axis.

Deaths burden:

⭕ Bad news: higher death burden 🇲🇰 🇦🇲 🇹🇳 🇭🇷 🇮🇹 🇦🇹

Countries with significantly higher recent death burden per 100k population vs. 10 days ago.

• "Significantly higher" = 100% more.
• Only considering countries that had at least 10 recent deaths in both timeframes, and death burden of at least 0.1 per 100k.

	Current: 5 day death burden per 100k	10 days ago: 5 day death burden per 100k	New reported deaths since 10 days ago	Estimated current ICU need per 100k population	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇲🇰 North Macedonia	2.74	1.10	104	4.2	6.0%
🇦🇲 Armenia	1.99	0.88	134	4.5	6.6%
🇹🇳 Tunisia	0.67	0.29	307	1.1	1.4%
🇭🇷 Croatia	1.07	0.49	93	2.3	1.3%
🇮🇹 Italy	0.84	0.34	966	8.6	5.7%
🇦🇹 Austria	0.60	0.29	102	1.6	1.2%

🟢 Good news: lower death burden 🇿🇦

Countries with significantly lower recent death burden per 100k population vs. 10 days ago.

• "Significantly lower" = 50% less
• Only considering countries that had at least 10 recent deaths in both timeframes, and death burden of at least 0.1 per 100k.

	Current: 5 day death burden per 100k	10 days ago: 5 day death burden per 100k	New reported deaths since 10 days ago	Estimated current ICU need per 100k population	Estimated total affected population percentage
🇿🇦 South Africa	0.38	0.89	659	0.5	8.3%

Appendix:

Note: For interactive map, per country details, projections, and modeling methodology see Projections of ICU need by Country dashboard

Warning: the visualisation below contains the results of a predictive model that was not built by an epidemiologist.

Future model projections plots per country

For countries in any of the above groups.

Tip: Choose country from the drop-down below the graph.

Future World projections (all countries stacked)

The outputs of the models for all countries in stacked plots.

Tip: Hover the mouse of the area to see which country is which and the countries S/I/R ratios at that point.

Tip: The plots are zoomable and draggable.

World total estimated actively infected

World total estimated recovered or dead

Methodology

• I'm not an epidemiologist. This is an attempt to understand what's happening, and what the future looks like if current trends remain unchanged.
• Everything is approximated and depends heavily on underlying assumptions.
• Transmission rate calculation:
  • Growth rate is calculated over the 5 past days by averaging the daily growth rates.
  • Confidence bounds are calculated from the weighted standard deviation of the growth rate over the last 5 days. Model predictions are calculated for growth rates within 1 STD of the weighted mean. The maximum and minimum values for each day are used as confidence bands. Countries with highly noisy transmission rates are exluded from tranmission rate change tables ("new waves", "slowing waves").
  • Transmission rate, and its STD are calculated from growth rate and its STD using active cases estimation.
  • For projections (into future) very noisy projections (with broad confidence bounds) are not shown in the tables.
  • Where the rate estimated from Total Outstanding Cases is too high (on down-slopes) recovery probability if 1/20 is used (equivalent 20 days to recover).
• Total cases are estimated from the reported deaths for each country:
  • Each country has a different testing policy and capacity and cases are under-reported in some countries. Using an estimated IFR (fatality rate) we can estimate the number of cases some time ago by using the total deaths until today.
  • IFRs for each country is estimated using the age adjusted IFRs from May 1 New York paper and UN demographic data for 2020. These IFRs can be found in df['age_adjusted_ifr'] column. Some examples: US - 0.98%, UK - 1.1%, Qatar - 0.25%, Italy - 1.4%, Japan - 1.6%.
  • The average fatality lag is assumed to be 8 days on average for a case to go from being confirmed positive (after incubation + testing lag) to death. This is the same figure used by "Estimating The Infected Population From Deaths".
  • Testing bias adjustment: the actual lagged fatality rate is than divided by the IFR to estimate the testing bias in a country. The estimated testing bias then multiplies the reported case numbers to estimate the true case numbers (=case numbers if testing coverage was as comprehensive as in the heavily tested countries).
• ICU need is calculated and age-adjusted as follows:
  • UK ICU ratio was reported as 4.4% of active reported cases.
  • Using UKs ICU ratio, UK's testing bias, and IFRs corrected for age demographics we can estimate each country's ICU ratio (the number of cases requiring ICU hospitalisation).